Tarzan 1.1 is now available. This release has so many new features, I can’t list them all. For that, you can read the release notes. There are also some minor changes for people upgrading from 1.0.x, so please look over the release notes anyways. Although there are zero API changes in this release, there are lots and lots of web interface improvements for people administering Tarzan installations. I’ve also laid the groundwork for keyword searching, which will be the primary feature of the next release.

My best friend sent this to me last night. I thought it was hilarious, so I just had to share. No offense, ladies.

(You’ll need to be familiar with the TV show “Alias” to understand anything in this post. If you are an Alias fan, please let me know your thoughts on Season 4 thus far.) Earlier today, I started watching the first season of Alias on DVD (again). Starting with the pilot, I found myself simply gripped by the story. Going through the first 8 or 9 episodes, and then comparing them to what we’ve been seeing on Wednesday nights, here are some of the reasons, I believe, that our much-beloved Alias is in trouble (in terms of remaining a good show, rather than being cancelled).

I just bought my wife a TiVo for Valentine’s Day (*giggles like a little girl*). No, she’s definitely not a geek like me, but I seem to have passed along the “Electronics and Gadgets Virus” to her. I am absolutely stunned by the coolness that is TiVo. Pausing live TV? Record anything you want by saying “Record this show whenever it happens to be on.” It actually came in handy tonight when we were watching 24 tonight. A couple of friends of ours were going to come over to watch it with us, but were running about 10 minutes behind.

Now, I feel like a bit of a bonehead for not figuring this out earlier considering how much networking I’ve done over the last few years, but I’m thrilled that I finally figured out how to print a document from my wireless Powerbook to the printer connected to my Windows XP desktop. First off, here’s how everything was setup and configured, before I tweaked it all to do what I wanted it to: The phone cord comes out of the wall, and into the DSL modem (well, duh).

Normally, I don’t post about the latest updates to the Mac operating system, but this time is special. This is the most special of all updates because it fixes the two major problems that I’ve had ever since I bought my Powerbook G4 over the summer. “…a problem in which, on rare occasions, a PowerBook G4 would wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to keyboard or mouse input” which I have been a victim of at least 50 times since June, and…

Tarzan 1.0.1 is now available. This is a relatively minor update where only three things were changed: I resolved some localization issues that primarily affected France, Germany, and Japan. If you’re currently localized as an english-speaking country, you probably won’t notice anything new. However, setting the character encoding for your Tarzan-enabled pages to UTF–8 is highly recommended for US, UK, and Canadian installations, and required for French, German, and Japanese installations. I also tweaked the get_rating() function to add /5 to the end of the rating (since it’s out of 5 anyways).

Which Napoleon Dynamite Character Are You?

Tarzan 1.0 is now available! There were only a couple of minor bug fixes since RC2, so existing installations shouldn’t be affected at all. I’ve also written a custom extension for displaying my own wishlist. If you’re interested in checking it out to build off of for your own wishlists (or whatever else it might be useful for), you can get ryan_wishlist.tzx here. And although I had wanted to add search capabilities to Tarzan by 1.0, I’ve decided to build an extension for that.

Tarzan 1.0 RC2 is now available for download. There are several new things in this version, including: Full support for all of Amazon’s locales (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Japan), improved error handling, redesigned Tarzan info page, and a new demo page which combines the old sample.php and breakdown.php pages. All you UK’ers should now be set to go! I’ll be converting my wishlist over the next few days in an effort to flush out any remaining bugs before I declare this a 1.